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Statute Law: Making Legislation

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Statute Law: Making Legislation
This series of interviews, followed by a lecture, provides a unique insight in the process by which legislation is created in the United Kingdom. All the interviewees are involved in the making of legislation in Whitehall, in Parliament or in the wider worlds of politics.
These materials were produced by the Statute Law Society, an educational charity devoted to promoting knowledge and understanding about legislation and the legislative process (http://www.statutelawsociety.org), and the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (http://www.iecl.ox.ac.uk/), with the support of the UK Centre for Legal Education (http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/) and law firm Herbert Smith LLP (http://www.herbertsmith.com).
Academic institutions wishing to order a free set of DVDs with all the interviews and the lecture for educational purposes should write to statutelaw@aol.com

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General Philosophy Lecture 6

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PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
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slides
millican
philosophy
powerpoint
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 30/11/2010
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6.4 Making Sense of Perception

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Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that objects are logical constructions from sense data) and direct realism (that we perceive objects and the external world directly).
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
idealism
perception
locke
philosophy
berkeley
phenomenalism
hume
austin
realism
strawson
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 00:16:32

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6.3 Abstraction and Idealism

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Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism - that perceptions of the external world are all within the mind as ideas.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
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berkeley
philosophy
knowledge
perception
hume
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 00:10:11

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6.2 Problems with Resemblance

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Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and objects; that the perceived qualities of objects exist only in the mind or whether secondary qualities are intrinsically part of the object.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
secondary qualities
perception
locke
philosophy
ideas
primary qualities
berkeley
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 00:10:49

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6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities

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Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we perceive), along with the concepts of primary and secondary qualities.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
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philosophy
locke
berkeley
ayer
peception
austin
boyle
strawson
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 00:14:28

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William Adams and the Samurai

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Oxford trip scholar Michael Jay is only the second non-Japanese man to hold a Samurai rank. Hear about his journey to becoming a Samurai.
Followed by a viewing of the actual logbook of the incredible voyage of William Adams, the first non-Japanese Samurai, housed in the Bodleian Library.

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Alumni Weekend
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Michael Jay
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samurai
alumni
hidden treasures
bodleian
japan
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 01:23:10

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The future of the past; The Bodleian's great acquisitions

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Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr Ovenden looks at the Bodleian's great acquisitions, from Alan Bennett's gift of his literary archive to Cavalli's Erismena, the earliest surviving score of an opera in the English language.
Hear more about the 'treasure trove' which is the Bodleian today and some of the acquisitions which will be major resources for generations of scholars to come.

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Alumni Weekend
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Richard Ovenden
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Libraries
collections
alumni
hidden treasures
bodleian
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 01:00:58

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The infinitely expanding universe of memory; books, manuscript...pixels

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Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Bodley's Librarian Dr Sarah Thomas in conversation with Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville, discussing the 'infinitely expanding universe of memory' and collections in the digital age.
What is the value of Oxford's library collections in a world where Google has digitised more books than are held by the Bodleian Libraries? Are the distinctions between the published and the unpublished becoming blurred?

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Alumni Weekend
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Sarah Thomas
Alice Prochaska
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bodleian
alumni
Libraries
books
digitisation
memory
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 01:11:44

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The Future of Human Rights

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Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Timothy Endicott, Murray Hunt and Sandra Fredman discuss the future of human rights, looking at the human rights constitution, its critics and how to uphold human rights.
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Alumni Weekend
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Timothy Endicott
Murray Hunt
Sandra Fredman
Keywords
human rights
politics
human rights constitution
alumni
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 30/11/2010
Duration: 00:56:29

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